I’ve been meaning to switch my pc to linux for a while but have only recently gotten enough time to switch. Is there anything that I would need a dualboot for? I was previously concerned with VR, specifically using a quest wirelessly. I heard about a year ago that it is possible but not the best. Has it improved since then?

And is there anything else I would still need a windows machine for? I don’t know specifically what doesn’t work and I don’t mind using FOSS alternatives.

I was running a raspberry pi with raspian on it as a homelab for a few years (until the SD card died :( I still need to fix that) so I am not completely unfamiliar with linux and the terminal and am willing to use it to make programs work as long as they work as well as they would on windows.

(I’ve decided on swapping to mint if that matters)

  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
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    I have never had to manually flash a BIOS. Usually when I’ve seen it done, some program was executed in Windows that would prepare the flashing, then the computer would restart and flash the BIOS before restarting again.

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      I think what you saw was the usb getting flashed (like how you make an installable drive), rebooting to bios and flashing the bios from the usb. That’s how I did it anyway.

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        Possible. I’m not proficient in the firmware realm. But since there was no external drive attached, that “installable drive” would have to have lived on the main drive.